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When it rains it pours!

Michael M. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 9:00 pm
I’m not talking out the song by 50 Cent… I’m talking about those days when you ask yourself, “when is the insanity going to end”! I’m going to get on my soapbox he...
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Philadelphia Cell Phone Law – Bluetooth Handsfree

Michael M. posted an article on - Dec 1, 2009, 6:00 am
The law has finally caught up with technology here in Philadelphia. Starting today, December 1, 2009, it’s illegal to operate a car, bicycle, or skate board while using a cell phone unless it...
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Cisco and Nortel Interoperability Technical Configuration Guide

Michael M. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 6:00 am
Nortel has released another technical configuration guide geared towards interoperability between Cisco and Nortel equipment. The document covers a lot of information including EtherChannel to MLT int...
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Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 – Google Adsense – Phishing URL

Michael M. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 11:00 am
It seems there is something amiss on the Internet this morning. It all started when my installation of Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 updated itself around 11:56AM this morning. I was looking at the...
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Which branch office VPN solution?

Michael M. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 7:00 pm
I’m looking to replace the two aging Nortel 1700 VPN Routers (formerly Contivity). These VPN routers provide branch office tunnels to our remote offices, vendors and business affiliates. We util...
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Digital Content Delivery – Steam

Michael M. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 10:00 pm
A man can’t be all work and no play. As a few of you know I enjoy first person shooters and strategy games, everyone needs t...
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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games and Nortel

Michael M. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 6:00 pm
I realized today that it’s  just 100 days until the start of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. While Nortel has withdrawn from the London 2012 Games they are still the provider for the u...
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Nortel IP Softphone 2050 Release 3.4

Michael M. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 9:00 am
Nortel has released the IP Softphone 2050 Release 3.4 (Build 3.4.003) for Windows PC. The following enhancements are available; Support for Microsoft Windows 7 Log file improvements The following i...
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Nortel IP Telephony Deployment Technical Configuration Guide

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 11:00 am
Nortel released a new version of the Nortel IP Telephony Deployment Technical Configuration Guide in September 2009 that is really another treasure trove of technical information for Nortel customers....
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Factory Reset Nortel IP Phone

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 6:00 pm
I know I’ve been asked this question quiet frequently and I finally got around to digging up the answer. Here are the details from the Nortel technical configuration guide with a few grammar cha...
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UNIStim Firmware Release 3.4 for Nortel IP Phones

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 10:00 pm
Nortel has released UNIStim firmware 3.3 for their IP phones; 0604DCN for Phase II IP Phones (2001, 2002 & 2004), 0621C6R for IP Phone 2007, 0623C6T, 0624C6T, 0625C6T and 0627C6T for IP Phone 1110, 1...
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Save the Internet – Two Million Strong for Net Neutrality

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 10:00 pm
I thought it was well past time for me to write about this topic. I’m just going to post some links and ask everyone to make up their own minds or at the very least to consider what Net Neutrali...
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test post soon to be deleted

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 3:33 pm
I’m testing the integration with Twitter Tools… seems to have worked originally and now is broken.
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How to configure SNMP v3 on Nortel Ethernet Routing Switches

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 2:00 pm
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to configure SNMP v3 for the ERS8600,ERS1600, and ERS5500.  In this day and age it is becom...
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How to restrict SNMP community strings on the ERS8600

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 11:00 am
Here’s a guest post (re-post from discussion forums) from Forrequi detailing the steps he took to setup an SNMP community string...
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Changing SNMP Community Strings

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 9:00 pm
In this day and age it’s not a very good idea to leave the default SNMP community strings configured in any network electronics. The general default configuration uses public for read-only and ...
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Nortel ERS 8600 Software 5.1, 5.1.1 Pulled

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 3:00 pm
In a move that I support Nortel has pulled 5.1 and 5.1.1 software for the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 from their support website. The purpose behind removing the older software releases is to ...
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Nortel ERS 8600 Software 5.1.1.1 Available

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 5:00 pm
Nortel has released software 5.1.1.1 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. Here some highlights from the release notes; Previously certain IST message ... The first reference the configuration of th...
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Nortel ES 460/470 Software 3.7.4 Released

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 9:00 pm
Nortel has released software 3.7.4 for the Ethernet Switch 460 and Ethernet Switch 470.  You’ll probably recall that Nortel pulled the 3.7.3 software release in May 2009 after several software ...
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Norton 360 and Juniper SSL VPN WSAM

Michael M. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 4:00 pm
Update: Thursday, October 8, 2009 I decided to rewrite this post to include all the information I’ve accumulated while troubleshooting the issues I’ve encountered deploying software releas...
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The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 9:00 pm
I was referred to this article by a friend who thought it had more truths than a lot of things in life these days. It was an article by Jeff Ello at CIO. I’m not going to cross post the entire a...
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What will happen to the product lines?

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 10:00 pm
The obvious question on everyone’s mind is what will happen to the Nortel and Avaya product lines? The safe bet at this time is that the data products will probably be fully adopted and the deve...
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Juniper SSL VPN Upgrade – Client Software

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 6:51 pm
We use a pair of Juniper Secure Access 4000 appliances operating in a cluster configuration for high availability to provide remot...
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State of the Union 2009

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 8:00 pm
... ;s fault that is!). I wanted to focus on the content and not just load up every possible WordPress widget under the sun so I decided to make a change to the Fusion Theme by Milenko Popovici. ......
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Nortel IP Phone 1165E

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 5:00 pm
The Nortel IP Phone 1165E hasn’t been officially announced just yet (no product information on the Nortel website) but here’s a marketing video posted to YouTube. Perhaps a few folks at N...
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Nortel Large Campus Technical Solution Guide

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 7:48 pm
Nortel recently released a highly technical document, Large Campus Technical Solution Guide, that should be a great benefit Nortel customers.  This document covers an amazing amount of information a...
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Avaya wins Nortel auction!

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 5:00 am
Avaya has emerged from the weekend long bidding process as the winner in the auction of the Nortel Enterprise Division. Avaya will reportedly pay $900 million for Nortel up from their initial offer of...
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Voice Pulse – IP Phone Service

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2009, 9:06 am
With AT&T CallVantage soon to be canceled I had to go searching for an alternate solution for my home phone service. I contemplated going with Verizon’s Triple Play since I already have Verizon ...
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All Offers Due Friday

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 9:30 pm
Well September 4, 2009 is almost upon us, and that date serves as the deadline to submit bids for Nortel’s Enterprise division. While we really won’t know the true outcome until September...
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Nortel 6100 Series WLAN Handset I2C Battery Issue

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 8:00 pm
Nortel has released a technical bulletin notifying customers of an issue with the Nortel 6100 Series Wireless LAN handsets running software release 2.x (build 115.019 or earlier) when the phones are p...
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Spam botnet comes knocking

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 5:00 pm
I don’t think this blog is that popular by any stretch of the imagination… No related posts.
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Juniper SSL VPN Secure Access 6.5 Available

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 9:00 pm
Juniper recently released a new version of software for their SSL VPN (Secure Access) appliances. The new release is important because it finally addresses a problem that was original documented on my...
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vSphere SCSI reservation conflict

Michael M. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 7:00 pm
We had our first issue today with our recent VMware vSphere 4 installation. We’re currently up to about 30 virtual machines ...
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LACP Configuration Examples (Part 3)

Michael M. posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 5:00 pm
In part 3 of this series I’ll provide a relatively simple example of a LACP LAG between a HP GbE2c L2/L3 switch and two Nort...
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LACP Configuration Examples (Part 2)

Michael M. posted an article on - Aug 19, 2009, 8:00 pm
In part 1 of this post I provided a pretty simple example of an LACP LAG between two Nortel switches. In this post I’ll prov...
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LACP Configuration Examples (Part 1)

Michael M. posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 6:00 pm
I thought I would take a few minutes and outline a few quick LACP configuration examples using Nortel Ethernet Switch 470s, Ethern...
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Nortel ERS 8600 Software 5.1.1 Available

Michael M. posted an article on - Aug 7, 2009, 11:00 am
Nortel has released software 5.1.1 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. Here some the SMLT/IST fixes from the release notes; In RSMLT edge support enabled mode, the creation of a new RSMLT enabled V...
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HP Virtual Connect Smart Link

Michael M. posted an article on - Aug 5, 2009, 6:00 pm
HP’s Virtual Connect supports a feature called Smart Link, a network enabled with Smart Link automatically drops link to the server ports if all uplink ports lose link. This feature is very simi...
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Upgrading PIM FPGA firmware on 8630GBR

Michael M. posted an article on - Aug 4, 2009, 5:00 pm
You’ve just installed a 8630GBR into your Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and you observe the following on the serial console; CPU5 SW INFO R-Module inserted: Slot=7 Type=8630GBR, waiting t...
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AT&T CallVantage to shutdown October 20, 2009

Michael M. posted an article on - Aug 3, 2009, 10:00 pm
Well the final notice arrived last week sometime. AT&T is pulling the plug on CallVantage come October 20, 2009. I’ve been a CallVantage customer for more than 3 years now and I’ve never (...
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HP Virtual Connect & VMware vSphere 4

Michael M. posted an article on - Aug 2, 2009, 9:00 am

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